Hong Kong, Sept. 9 -- Asian Games champions men's doubles duo of Satwiksairaj Rankireddy and Chirag Shetty made it to round two of the ongoing Hong Kong Open badminton event on Tuesday.

Satwiksairaj and Chirag, playing the tournament just days after their second World Championships bronze medal, outclassed the 17th-ranked Chinese Taipei pair of Chiu Hsiang Chieh and Wang Chi-Lin 21-13, 18-21, 21-10 in 59 minutes, as per Olympics.com.

The round of 16 challenge for the popular men's doubles pair would be either Japan's Kenya Mitsuhashi-Hiroki Okamura or Thailand's Peeratchai Sukphun-Pakkapon Teeraratsakul in the round of 16.

Also, the former world number one Kidambi Srikkanth faced a stunning exit in the qualifying round. The former Worl...